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Comment by tempfile

3 hours ago

Built it into the protocol that you must provide bandwidth in order to have your requests served. A bit like forcing people to seed torrents.

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rgilton  3 hours ago

Works for static content and databases, but I don't think it works for applications where there is by necessity only one destination that can't be replicated (e.g. a door lock).

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